2.7 lakh paramilitary, 20 lakh state police deployed for LS polls

NEW DELHI: Over 2.7 lakh paramilitary personnel together with over 20 lakh state police personnel and residential guards are on the job for guaranteeing easy conduct of the seven-phase Lok Sabha polls within the nation. Residence Ministry officers stated deployment of such numerous safety personnel within the 2019 normal elections was the best ever in India. Following a suggestion of the Election Fee, 2,710 corporations of paramilitary personnel had been deployed in Lok Sabha polls, a house ministry official stated. An organization of paramilitary includes about 100 personnel. As well as, police pressure and residential guards of every state, whole variety of which might be over 20 lakh, have been deployed together with paramilitary personnel in all cubicles, transportation of polling personnel and guarding robust rooms the place the Digital Voting Machines are stored after the polls. The full sanctioned energy of India’s state police forces is round 21 lakh and paramilitary is round 10 lakh. Because the phases are getting over, paramilitary troops are being moved from one state to the opposite, the official stated. Aside from Jammu and Kashmir, which has been essentially the most delicate state for holding the polls, West Bengal has seen deployment of a large 41,000 personnel for easy conduct of elections within the seven-phase polls within the state’s 42 Lok Sabha constituencies. Majority of the paramilitary personnel had been drawn from the Central Reserve Police Power (CRPF), Border Safety Power (BSF), Sashastra Seema Bal (BSF), Central Industrial Safety Power (CISF) and Indian Reserve Battalions (IRBs) of various states, one other official stated. Large logistics and requisitioning of railway coaches, vans and helicopter sorties are being organized to ship these forces to the designated polling areas. The Lok Sabha polls started on April 11 and can finish on Might 19. The counting of votes is scheduled for Might 23.